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An open to letter to Amazon.

Dear Amazon,
I have spent some time drafting notes to your customer service over the last day and to be honest, the response I have gotten suggests they don’t actually read the messages they get properly.
I don’t own a Kindle, but I do have Kindle software running on an iPad, I access Kindle via webapp from [...]

One vision.

One of the things that saddens me most about living in Ireland at the moment, is we don’t have any vision for the sort of society we want to live in. When Enda Kenny speaks to the nation he’s not inspiring, he’s telling us bad news.
I’m sick of bad news. I realise things are far [...]

on the state of the nation.

Our economists are falling over themselves to show their relevance in the new scary today in Ireland. I wish they’d all shut up.
The overwhelming majority of them completely failed to foresee the economic disaster which befell the country. Their absolute inability to read their own crystal ball ill behoves them to be wheeled out to [...]

on a past life….coming back to haunt.

I graduated Applied Languages in Dublin City University more than ten years ago, and on the basis of some of that course, I was recommended to look at interpreting courses. Specifically, the interpreting course at the Polytechnic of Central London was recommended.
When I eventually got there, it had already become the University of Westminster and [...]

Promoting a new, fairer Ireland.

Enda Kenny announced last night he was resigning his teaching position. This is a job he last held in 1975 apparently. I’m not to clear on the date, because I was only about 2 and a half years old when he set up to be a TD for Mayo. He is – I understand – [...]

They haven’t canvassed me yet.

Or else I missed them. I’m not sure I get to vote because I am waiting for the supplementary list to be published to see if I can vote. I moved house at a bad time and only got my updated form in just about on time…I hope.
I’ve one primary question for anyone from Labour, [...]

May you live in interesting times.

I never wanted to live in interesting times. They’re usually interesting in a bad way punctuated with interesting in a good way from time to time. The last 10 years have been good and bad but they are a walk in the park compared to the current now status in Ireland.
The Green Party have pulled [...]

An open letter to Brian Cowen

Dear Brian,
so it’s all over and you’ve prevailed. I’m interested in this, however, which thejournal.ie has livetweeted from your “I’m a terrific victor” confidence vote winning speech:
Position of our country would be even more perilous if we hadn’t taken the economic decisions we needed to
I disagree, Brian, and vehemently so. You and your party have [...]

Forcing social change on Ireland – seriously

Possibly if you’re under the age of 35, you might not know this but one of the leaders in making condoms more easily available to the people of Ireland includes the now gone Virgin Megastore on Aston Quay. Sure, there had been protests, and condom trains and all that, but when I came to Dublin [...]

For estate agents needing to get a clue.

I know it’s December. I know it’s generally a quiet time for your industry but I have started house hunting. I expect it to take a while but in the meantime, when I’m doing my research, I have to deal with your sales pitches. On the internet, you suck.
If you want me to take you [...]